Contest Entry: One of Kellogg's Patent Medicines

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

This product was extraordinarily dangerous.

"When taken in the doses recommended by Professor Kellogg it could also cause hypertension, cardiac arrest, and stroke. Analysis of a sample of "Sanitone Wafers" by the federal chemists showed them to contain, salts of iron and chromium, a laxative plant extractive, red pepper and a trace of strychnine. In 1921 Kellogg was ordered by the District Court in Tennessee to cease marketing and destroy his inventory."

Comments

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

That expression is nightmare-inducing! =(

[booksandcheeses.livejournal.com]

Is that supposed to be before or after the Sanitone wafers?

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

"F.J. Kellogg"? Somebody's making less-than-licit use of the name "Kellogg" here: the Battle Creek Sanitarium was founded by John Harvey Kellogg, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company by his brother Will Keith Kellogg.